Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Timothy Bottoms, George Segal,
Directors : James Goldstone,

A blackmailer threatens to sabotage roller-coasters at various American amusement parks if he isn't paid a huge ransom.

Actors : Ella Reid, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Juanita Brown,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

In a women's prison, a group of inmates band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the warden.

Actors : Charles Tyner, Keith Carradine, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

In 1933, during the Depression, Shack the brutal conductor of the number 19 train has a personal vendetta against the best train hopping hobo tramp in the Northwest, A No. 1.

Actors : Stockard Channing, Joseph Bologna, Rene Auberjonois, John Beck,
Directors : James Frawley,

The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear powered bus is going Non-stop from New York to Denver and is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the ...

Actors : Vonetta McGee, Neda Arneric, Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay,
Directors : John Guillermin,

P.I. John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.

Actors : Neetu Singh, Rishi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

Three brothers are separated and united after many years - one is brought up a Hindu, another a Muslim and the last (and most memorable) a Christian. Hilarity and adventure ensues.

Actors : Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett,
Directors : Steve Carver,

Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Anthony Zerbe, Michael Moriarty, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Vietnam veteran Ray Hicks gets conned into helping his buddy John Converse smuggle some heroin, only to wind up on the lam with John's wife when the deal goes sour.

Actors : Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Carlos Muñoz,
Directors : Giuseppe Colizzi,

The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot ...

Actors : Meng Lo, Sheng Chiang, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Chien Sun,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

The final student of a dying martial arts master is instructed to locate the previous five students and defeat any evil ones among them.

Actors : Francisco Rabal, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.

Actors : Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ôki, Akiji Kobayashi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Trailed by a clan of female ninja, Ogami is paid to assassinate a clan traitor accompanied by three killers known as the Gods of Death.

Actors : Bo Hopkins, Arthur Hill, Robert Duvall, James Caan,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

Mike Locke, who works for a private security firm affiliated with the CIA, is betrayed by his partner and left apparently crippled for life.

Actors : Simon Oakland, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Don Medford,

A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.

Actors : Goichi Yamada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Fumio Watanabe, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Tough karate master Terry Tsurugi takes it upon himself to protect a late businessman's daughter from the Yakuza.

Actors : Roger Moore, James Mason, Michael Parks, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.

Actors : Masaaki Daimon, Kazuya Aoyama, Reiko Tajima, Akihiko Hirata,
Directors : Jun Fukuda,

Apelike aliens build a robotic Godzilla to destroy Japan, and the true Godzilla may not be powerful enough to destroy it.

Actors : Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi, Robert Dunham, Katsuhiko Sasaki,
Directors : Jun Fukuda,

The undersea nation of Seatopia sends the gigantic Megalon to destroy the world above - and it's up to Godzilla and a size-shifting robot, Jet Jaguar, to defeat him.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Linda Evans,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A sleazy, incompetent detective tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a socialite who murdered a burglar.